timon wrote:
Hi, I posted a question last week on why [textextruded] wasnt working. I got the answer, GEM must be compiled with FTGL. So why was it changed in the first place? It seemed to be running fine (or sort of) and now it aint working at all. And sadly I dont know how to compile GEM with FTGL.
please note that [textextruded] was only introduced into Gem because of FTGL (the old fontrendering library used was GLTT which had no such thing as extruded text).
so the answer is: in order to have [textextruded] working, you must compile Gem with FTGL; there have never been another way to get extruded text.
Whats the reason for this grand change? Any future benefits? Will it support a full UTF-8 character map?
like chris has said, there has not been a grand change regarding fonts for years. and yes, the text-objects in current CVS support full Unicode (well not full: only the first 65000 or so) characters.
mfga-sdr IOhannes